RIFT Beta Community Event Announced

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RIFT Beta Community Event Announced

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RIFT&#153; is the complete MMO experience you've been waiting for! Dynamic conflict and a revolutionary class system await you in this world besieged by the elemental planes. RIFT is now open to all users for its final beta event, Telara the Merciless, and The Escapist has a guild on two different servers with two different factions to show the world of Telara what we are made of!

Since RIFT is now open to the public for their final beta event, we want to host an event on two different servers. If you would like to play as a Guardian, head over to the Byriel server and get an invite into The Escapist Guild. For those of you who would like to play as the Defiant, jump on to the Wolfsbane server and get an invite into the Zero Punctuation Guild. Our goal is to have a lot of fun with our community, as well as show everyone in Telara our combined might! While you don't have to PvP, there is a way to flag ourselves, just in case we want to wreck shop across two different servers. Keep reading on the rules of participation and how to get your free RIFT account from Trion.

This event begins today at 1PM ET and runs through February 21st at 1PM ET. For all the rules of participation and how to get yourself into the beta, click here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/riftbeta]. Grab your gear, it's time to wreck shop.

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[TheLazyGeek]

I would love to join in, but I've my own Guild to attend to in Silkweb. Buuuuut, open-beta is for the next 6 days, so maybe I'll have some free time to pop on over on Byriel.

 

[brunothepig]

I'd be all over this, but I probably won't have a good internet plan for a little while longer... Just as soon as my mate moves in, and we find jobs, then we can get an internet plan... If that happens sooner than expected, I'll join for the finale or something. Promise.

 

[therandombear]

If I am to believe most people I've talked too who bought this game just for the RIFT weapons in TF2 then this is not the complete MMO experience you've been waiting for!
More dull and boring is what I've heard.

 

[Polock]

Anyone try it yet? Is it tryable?


I looked at the class webpage, they have "Marksman" and "Ranger" under the same thing for Rouges; as in what you can advance to. Each "main class" has 7 other classes to become. It's too much to balance. I don't forsee it working out to well. A lot of the classes over lap too. Aren't Druid and Shaman nearly the same thing, as far as MMO's go? And why would you have a pyromancer, a thunderweaver (some kind of lighting class) and then have an elementist? Wouldn't an elementist have the ability to control all of it?

Just seems like the developers were trying to make it BIG and COOL looking. While I'm sure it delivers basic MMO material, its not for me.

Sticking to GW 2.

 

[openedge1]

I have played the last two betas. As far as MMO's go, it is not "unqiue", but it is evolutionary in respect to great service, incredible development and a stable, polished game. They took little bits of various MMO's and created an all in one game.

If you like WoW, EQ2, etc...but, want a new shiny version of it with a well done game world...then you cannot lose in Rift.

Check out their live events system and the Public quest style Rift invasions. Incredible fun.

 

[barash]

Made the account with the link provided, but ain't getting no stiiiinkin' beta access. Boo!

 

[Spinwhiz]

I'm going to need some volunteers who will log in at 1PM ET today to create the Zero Punctuation guild. I need 3 people, any takers? You must be playing Defiant on Wolfsbane.

Please let me know, thanks!

 

[manythings]

Anyone try it yet? Is it tryable?


I looked at the class webpage, they have "Marksman" and "Ranger" under the same thing for Rouges; as in what you can advance to. Each "main class" has 7 other classes to become. It's too much to balance. I don't forsee it working out to well. A lot of the classes over lap too. Aren't Druid and Shaman nearly the same thing, as far as MMO's go? And why would you have a pyromancer, a thunderweaver (some kind of lighting class) and then have an elementist? Wouldn't an elementist have the ability to control all of it?

Just seems like the developers were trying to make it BIG and COOL looking. While I'm sure it delivers basic MMO material, its not for me.

Sticking to GW 2.

I was in there a few times. It's ok but just very much WoW with a gimmick that an army of assholes who are more powerful than you can just basically pop up in the middle of you trying to do a quest and fuck up your day.

 

[ThreeKneeNick]

Rift was fun in the betas but from my experience in its alpha it just looses its shine when there aren't enough players around. This is the most population-dependent game i have played since Warhammer Online and simply isn't fun when there is nobody to close a rift with. The game is otherwise a rehash of current trends with shiny new graphics. If youre into that, do give it a try while you can still do it for free, but i don't think the game will last long.

 

[toomuchnothing]

Bah should have been Defiants on Byriel, thats where my 21 Warrior from the last beta is. Oh well maybe I can kill a few Escapist Guardians who flag.

 

[Baldr]

*"You have not yet been invited to a beta event."
*Um I followed the instructions.

**Nevermind, there was a second email with the access.

 

[Spinwhiz]

Quick update, Kuliania is on the Wolfsbane server for the Zero Punctuation guild. Send him a tell to get an invite as a Defiant. On the Byriel server, there are a bunch of people who can invite you, just send one a tell!

 

[rsvp42]

I'm with some of the other posters. The game is decent (and I can't complain about a free beta key, thanks!) but it really doesn't seem to offer much that's new. I'm only going off of the 15 or so levels I played in the last beta event (and someone on another forum assured me it gets better after level 20, take that for what you will), but I found the race selection to be lackluster and the lore didn't really capture my imagination. Quests are standard MMO fare and the class system is okay, though I wish there were a more visible differentiation between classes. That's one thing I noticed: early on just about everyone looks the same shade of brown and grey.

I feel like I could get into it if I was hankering something a little meatier than Champions to tide me over until TOR, but it doesn't feel like it has quite what I'm looking for. Still, I'll probably fire it up tonight after work and give it another go.

 

[Spinwhiz]

Zero Punctuation guild is now up and rolling on Wolfsbane. Send a tell to Kuliania for an invite. As more people join that guild, please post your name below so others can send you a tell for an invite.

 

[Roganzar]

Rift is a good damn game. Yeah there isn't a whole lot thats new, granted, however it does take what is good from other games and uses all that to make a good solid game.
Guess, its time to roll on Byriel, see you there toomuchnothing.

 

[Wow they sure are generous with the usernames]

Anyone try it yet? Is it tryable?


I looked at the class webpage, they have "Marksman" and "Ranger" under the same thing for Rouges; as in what you can advance to. Each "main class" has 7 other classes to become. It's too much to balance. I don't forsee it working out to well. A lot of the classes over lap too. Aren't Druid and Shaman nearly the same thing, as far as MMO's go? And why would you have a pyromancer, a thunderweaver (some kind of lighting class) and then have an elementist? Wouldn't an elementist have the ability to control all of it?

Just seems like the developers were trying to make it BIG and COOL looking. While I'm sure it delivers basic MMO material, its not for me.

Sticking to GW 2.

You're completely wrong about how the class system works in Rift.

You pick a class to begin with: Rogue, Mage, Warrior, Cleric. Then, you pick your first soul out of 8 options, which is what your class really is. Are you an assassin rogue, a marksman rogue, a tanking rogue, a teleporting rogue, etc. You then play through the instanced starting area, and as you progress you pick two additional souls to have. Each soul works like a talent tree from WoW, except that by putting more points into a tree, you unlock more abilities at the bottom of the tree, along with whatever you unlock with your points. Effectively, this gives the player a ridiculous amount of depth in customizing their class to play however they want to. Each class can do almost everything, and you'll be able to have 4 different 3 soul combinations available to switch between whenever you're out of combat.

 

[Polock]

Anyone try it yet? Is it tryable?


I looked at the class webpage, they have "Marksman" and "Ranger" under the same thing for Rouges; as in what you can advance to. Each "main class" has 7 other classes to become. It's too much to balance. I don't forsee it working out to well. A lot of the classes over lap too. Aren't Druid and Shaman nearly the same thing, as far as MMO's go? And why would you have a pyromancer, a thunderweaver (some kind of lighting class) and then have an elementist? Wouldn't an elementist have the ability to control all of it?

Just seems like the developers were trying to make it BIG and COOL looking. While I'm sure it delivers basic MMO material, its not for me.

Sticking to GW 2.

You're completely wrong about how the class system works in Rift.

You pick a class to begin with: Rogue, Mage, Warrior, Cleric. Then, you pick your first soul out of 8 options, which is what your class really is. Are you an assassin rogue, a marksman rogue, a tanking rogue, a teleporting rogue, etc. You then play through the instanced starting area, and as you progress you pick two additional souls to have. Each soul works like a talent tree from WoW, except that by putting more points into a tree, you unlock more abilities at the bottom of the tree, along with whatever you unlock with your points. Effectively, this gives the player a ridiculous amount of depth in customizing their class to play however they want to. Each class can do almost everything, and you'll be able to have 4 different 3 soul combinations available to switch between whenever you're out of combat.

Well that does sound better. Actually sounds much better, but still, the game doesn't interest me so much. The last MMO I bought was AION, and while beautiful, and great combat animation, the game got so ridiculously boring at the lvl 20-25'ish mark. Copious amounts of grinding and every. single. quest. was kill 10 of X monster. Then 20 more of the harder ones.

If this game isn't like that, I stand corrected.

 

[BENZOOKA]

This sounds like an MMO I'd really like, but then again it's an MMO, so it's evil and would take my time and money, on a monthly basis.

I'm divided into two.